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If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.

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My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

Always Around Different Doing
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

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Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

About Admired Beatles Choices
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

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People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

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I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Almost Always Bit Felt
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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Children Come Down Far
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I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Good I Think Love Love Songs
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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

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When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
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I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

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Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

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They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

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Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
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The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

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I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.

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I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

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I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

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The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.

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The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

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I was an overnight sensation.

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Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

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I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

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From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

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I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.

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I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.

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I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films.

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To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

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I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

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When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

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My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

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She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

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I was a street dancer.

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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

Feel Hard I Feel Living
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

Affection Audience Because Child
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If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

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